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All That Heaven Allows

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All That Heaven Allows
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NR,1hr 29min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1955
Director:
Douglas Sirk
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead  ...more
Synopsis: One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson). Sirk builds up sympathy for Cary by showing how empty her life has been since her husband's death, even suggesting that the marriage itself was no picnic. Throwing conventionial behavior ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Douglas Sirk's stylized romantic melodrama is one of the most fascinating of his films and the most thoroughgoing in its critique of American middle-class values. Its simple story concerns a romance between a 40-ish widow, Jane Wyman, and her young gardener, Rock Hudson, which scandalizes her social circle in a small New England town. "Sirk has made the tenderest films I know, they are the films of ... Full Review
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Jane Wyman
Cary Scott
Rock Hudson
Ron Kirby
Agnes Moorehead
Sara Warren
Conrad Nagel
Harvey
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